Housing quality and mental health.

Evans, Gary W.; Wells, Nancy M.; Chan, Hoi-Yan Erica; Saltzman, Heidi

doi:10.1037//0022-006x.68.3.526

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“…Regarding the concept of “the theory of place” 35 ) , this study aimed to clarify and solve complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual WB, within wider society. When workers use their homes as a workplace, poor environmental quality housing harms the physical and socioemotional health of them 36 ) . They are able to evaluate which properties fulfill their various needs in different environments, more so because homes have components that provide biological, social, psychological, and/or cultural satisfaction.…”

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Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being

2023

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The home has become a new physical workplace, and can therefore influence the work, health, and life of workers. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the chronology of the effects of work hazards at home on factors such as workers' health, productivity, and well-being (WB). Information on novice working-from-home (WFH) workers was derived from the "Occupational health of WFH" project. The selected variables in the hypothesis model comprised problems such as perceived indoor environmental quality (IEQ), working conditions (WC), sick house syndrome (SHS), occupational stress (OS), work productivity (WP), and WB. The relationship between these variables was analyzed using a structural equation model. The group analysis results showed the following significant indirect path effects from work environment through WP: IEQ-> SHS->OS->WP. A non-significant direct effect was observed between IEQ and WP. While WC problems could also have a significant direct effect on WP, or be mediated by OS, WP is a significant consequence and a direct effect of WB. In conclusion, the WFH model's causal impact between home environment, WP, and WB is a physiopsychological pathway. Therefore, creating a healthy home environment and WC, along with OS management, comprise important issues for improving productivity and WB for this new work style.

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Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being

2023

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“…Though nationwide surveys on tenants’ fear of retaliatory evictions are scarce in the United States, surveys in England ( Levelling Up Housing and Communities Committee, 2016 ) and Australia ( CHOICE National Shelter, 2017 ) find roughly half of each countries’ renters fear their landlord would attempt to evict or “blacklist” them if they requested needed repairs. Seeing neighbors evicted may amplify those fears, driving up the prevalence of habitability violations such as mold, rodent or cockroach infestations or extreme temperatures and increasing tenants’ risk of respiratory illness, injury, and poor mental health ( American Lung Association, 2020 ; Evans et al, 2000 ; Gielen et al, 2015 ; Wimalasena et al, 2021 ).…”

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Eviction as a community health exposure

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Social Science & Medicine

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Childhood Cumulative Risk Exposure and Adult Amygdala Volume and Function

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King

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J of Neuroscience Research

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Considerable work indicates that early cumulative risk exposure is aversive to human development, but very little research has examined neurological underpinnings of these robust findings. We investigated amygdala volume and reactivity to facial stimuli among adults (M = 23.7 years, n = 54) as a function of cumulative risk exposure during childhood (ages 9 and 13). In addition, we tested whether expected, cumulative risk elevations in amygdala volume would mediate functional reactivity of the amygdala during socio-emotional processing. Risks included substandard housing quality, noise, crowding, family turmoil, child separation from family, and violence. Total and left hemisphere adult amygdala volumes, respectively were positively related to cumulative risk exposure during childhood. The links between childhood cumulative risk exposure and elevated amygdala responses to emotionally neutral facial stimuli in adulthood were mediated by the respective amygdala volumes. Cumulative risk exposure in later adolescence (17 years), however, was unrelated to subsequent, adult amygdala volume or function. Physical and socioemotional risk exposures early in life appear to alter amygdala development, rendering adults more reactive to ambiguous stimuli such as neutral faces. These stress-related differences in childhood amygdala development might contribute to well-documented psychological distress as a function of early risk exposure.

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Housing quality and mental health.

Cited by 73 publications

References 11 publications

Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being

Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being

Eviction as a community health exposure

Childhood Cumulative Risk Exposure and Adult Amygdala Volume and Function

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